What the night sky looks like over West Point, UT

West Point's sky measures rural here. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. West Point's sky is brighter than 6.9% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class.

How far West Point is from a meaningfully darker sky

Magna, UT, about 25 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the dark sky band, one step darker than West Point. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Magna, UT is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.

West Point against the rest of the dataset

West Point, UT has a population of about 12,726, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, West Point ranks 222 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.